From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 4 17:41:39 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id RAA21909 for current-outgoing; Sat, 4 Mar 1995 17:41:39 -0800 Received: from rover.village.org (rover.village.org [198.137.146.49]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id RAA21903 for ; Sat, 4 Mar 1995 17:41:34 -0800 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rover.village.org (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA22270; Sat, 4 Mar 1995 18:40:54 -0700 Message-Id: <199503050140.SAA22270@rover.village.org> To: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Subject: Re: backspace now broken Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org In-reply-to: Your message of Sat, 04 Mar 1995 15:03:52 MST Date: Sat, 04 Mar 1995 18:40:54 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk : > Okay, some keyboards do just have the <-- on that key, but many also have : > the word ``backspace'' or ``<-- backspace'' printed on the key. I have : > never seen a PC keyboard with that key labeled ``delete''. : : My DEC Rainbow 100+. 8-). Mine too :-). That was my first PC, so it colored my thinking on things. : The DEL vs. BS argument is, as has been pointed out, pretty specious; : it's a religious rather than a technical or a user protection issue. Yes. It is. I run my system with <-- generating DEL, but then I have *ALL* my shells setup to use DEL as delete-previous-character. Emacs also uses it as its default delete-previous-character, so that's why I've change the map. Have a program that is smart enough to generate the swapping of DEL and BS, CAP LOCK and CONTROL, and maybe Escape and ~`, and that should cover 99% of the US remapping requirements (for people that still basically want an QWERTY layout, that is). Then again, I have the following in my /etc/rc.local, so that I would never notice a change like this :-). if [ -r /etc/keymap.sys -a -x /usr/sbin/kbdcontrol ]; then /usr/sbin/kbdcontrol -l /etc/keymap.sys fi BTW, I don't care what the default is, but PC users might expect <-- to generate BS while Delete generates DEL or some other escape sequence. Warner